Streaming Broadcasters Need a Wake Up Call
New data released by AndoMedia this week showed that listening to Internet radio Pureplay stations, or online only stations now represents more than 60% of US based listening among the groups that they measure. Dave Van Dyke of Bridge Ratings sent me two graphs that show the movement of listening to pureplay stations versus broadcast streams. [...]
Streaming Radio Pioneer Sold
StreamAudio, one of the early companies into providing streaming and ad insertion solutions to radio broadcasters, has been sold to Optic Fusion, a Seattle based company specializing in business connectivity services. StreamAudio began in 1999 and was sold to Chaincast in 2001. Since then, they have obtained several rounds of funding totaling $19 million. The [...]
July Data On Internet Radio Listening
Highlighting the fact that listening to Internet radio Pureplay stations, or online only stations now represents more than 60% of domestic listening on its ranker, AndoMedia releases July data for the stations that it measures. Given that 14 of the top twenty on that ranker are broadcast companies that aggregate their station streams, and only [...]
Harman’s Aha Moment
Joining the list of manufacturers moving into mobile streaming, Harman International purchased Aha Mobile. Aha Mobile is a technology platform that provides on-demand, interactive, personalized radio to mobile users. It uses location based and text to speech features to personalize and stream audio content. It enables a user to update or listen to a facebook [...]
Mobile Music Listening is Increasing
234 million Americans ages 13 and older used mobile devices during the 3 month average period ending in July, 2010 and close to 34 million (14.5%) of them listened to music on them. According to comScore, the number of mobile devices that are smartphones is increasing, up 11% from April to July 2010. More than [...]
Bridge Ratings: Broadcast Stations Are Losing Share Online
Bridge Ratings has released some new research that uses AndoMedia’s Webcast Metrics data to show patterns in Internet radio listening behavior. Here are some highlights: Listening to Internet radio is up 23%. That’s based on the number of average active sessions that AndoMedia sees in its top 20 ranker, from November 2009 to June 2010. [...]
Super Tuesday for Music Fans
Today is one of the busiest release dates for new music, and to celebrate, NPR Music is giving listeners a preview of 14 new albums including Robert Plant, Mavis Staples, SuperChunk, and other great stuff. NPR Music regularly debuts new music on their First Listen page, and right now it’s – according to them – [...]
Is Bubba Headed to Internet Radio?
Bubba the Love Sponge has apparently been talking on his radio show about going to Radioio, a well established Internet radio platform that has been around for quite a while. That’s according to Motley Fool, an online investment magazine that spends a lot of time focused on Sirius XM who describes Radioio as “a wholly owned [...]
Amazon Jumps Into Streaming
There’s definitely a trend among online behemoths (like Google, Apple) to purchase hip streaming music platforms (like Simplify, Lala) as tools for an upcoming entree into the streaming music marketplace. Now Amazon buys Amie Street, an online music store that focused on independent musicians and worked on a unique pricing model based on demand for [...]
Sony Will Stream Music Unlimited
Sony has announced that they will launch an online cloud based music service called Music Unlimited before the end of the year. The service will stream music to Sony’s TVs, Blu-ray players, and connected mobile devices, which will also be able to cache and store songs for offline listening as well. Sony released the news [...]
